Motherhood Paints a Messy Picture

If you were to paint a portrait of a mother, it would have to be one of those collages that has about a million little scences in every color of paint you could squeeze onto the canvas. Motherhood is diverse. There's really nothing special about motherhood. It's just a woman going about her life - oh wait a minute - completely responsible for someone else's!

We mothers are always stumbling around wondering if we did it right or how much it's going to cost to fix what we did wrong. We have so many choices that we don't even realize they're just that - choices. Too many of us try to be the room mother and the CEO. We're playing Martha Stewart and driving through Mickey D's. We wear jeans and khakis and business suits. Or we spend all day in yoga pants if we don't get a chance to shower - or just if we feel like it. We are trying to eat right, recycle, and keep the frown lines at bay. We scream a lot (is that just me?) and laugh and cry.

Our portrait needs a lot of blurred lines and messed up brush strokes because that's how we feel much of the time. But as a whole it comes together. As long as our children's needs are met - that they are cozy and smiling when we tuck them in at night - we paint a pretty good picture.

Parent Bloggers Network is asking lots of bloggers for portraits of a mother.